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Title: The Regent
Author: E. Arnold Bennett
Release Date: June 14, 2004 [EBook #12611]
Language: English
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THE REGENT
A FIVE TOWNS STORY OF ADVENTURE IN LONDON
BY
ARNOLD BENNETT
1913
CONTENTS
PART I
CHAPTER
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
DOG-BITE.
THE BANK-NOTE
WILKINS’S
ENTRY INTO THE THEATRICAL WORLD
MR SACHS TALKS
LORD WOLDO AND LADY WOLDO
PART II
CHAPTER
VII.
CORNER-STONE
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VIII. DEALING WITH ELSIE
IX.
THE FIRST NIGHT
X.
ISABEL
THE REGENT
PART I
CHAPTER I
DOG-BITE
I
-And yet,- Edward Henry Machin reflected as at six minutes to six
he approached his own dwelling at the top of Bleakridge, -and yet--I
don’t feel so jolly after all!-
The first two words of this disturbing meditation had reference to the
fact that, by telephoning twice to his stockbrokers at Manchester,
he had just made the sum of three hundred and forty-one pounds in a
purely speculative transaction concerning Rubber Shares. (It was in
the autumn of the great gambling year, 1910.) He had simply opened his
lucky and wise mouth at the proper moment, and the money, like ripe,
golden fruit, had fallen into it, a gift from benign heaven, surely
a cause for happiness! And yet--he did not feel so jolly! He was
surprised, he was even a little hurt, to discover by introspection
that monetary gain was not necessarily accompanied by felicity.
Nevertheless, this very successful man of the world of the Five Towns,
having been born on the 27th of May 1867, had reach...